If Kabir is clipping her wings (from G's post) ,imo, Zara is smothering him with her love, her zeal to help him with his work, with his dreams.Like him,she is also unaware of her actions.
I was very proud of Kabir yesterday(may be the only one here). This guy has a vision .For his life, for his community. He is willing to give up his inheritance for it.And it's a vision he has been holding for ages, long before his father bulldozed him into a marriage with Zara.
He took her to the place that holds his dreams. Shared with her what dreams he has for that place. Zara was proud and fell little deeper in love with her "mullah. And then, she made his dreams their dreams. That's where trouble starts. Because, that's not what Kabir wants. For he knows they can't work together.With visions of shirtless Kabir floating in and out her head, Zara is totally in love and awe of her idealistic husband. Yes, the vamp is right. Zara is totally fidda and either she is blind-sighted to their differences in views or she is over confident of their love to over come.
She picked his clothes to match up to her father. Did he want to dress "up? She put him to sleep and completed his work for him. I'm fine with Kabir getting pissed off and trashing her notes. He would be grateful if he saw his work as a chore and happy to see someone did it while he slept. But for him, this is his life's work. It's part of his father's dream passed on to him and he is committed to fulfill. His over zealous wife should stay out of it. And help him, only when her help is sought, imo, help enforced is interference. Who likes that?
Kabir wants to be independent of his father's long shadow. He is burdened by the bride money his father paid and pretty much begged his new wife to return it. No way is he going to use that to fund his dream project. In Zara's defense I can say its bad timing.
Why is it always about Kabir's dreams? Because Zara doesn't have any dreams. She has vague ideas about wanting to do something for the community and not waste her education. She joined Sharia board only to protect her father from the machinations of the wicked Ahammeds. She wasn't prepared for it like Kabir was by Shabaz. Now that she is on board, she is determined to fulfil her responsibilities& work for women, she will not let any one stop her from doing that.
As much as I want to see Kabir reciprocate her loving gestures and pay attention to his beautiful wife, I also want Zara to respect his need for space and let him do his work, raise his funds and chase his dreams. There's no "us in them yet, it's still, "you" and "I". Zara and Kabir, two individuals from opposite spectrum of religious views forced into a marriage.Zabir will take a long time to come into being.
Edit-I mean space in general, not just physical/personal space.
P.S- I know, next week Kabir will draw more flak, he seems defensible this week.đ